CLAY

• (noun) the dead body of a human being

  "the cadaver was intended for dissection", "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse", "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river", "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

  synonyms : cadaver , corpse , remains , stiff

  The cadaver is medically examined in case of unnatural death. -added by Aswathy_inlas

  His cadaverous look seems scary at times. -added by Aswathy_inlas

• (noun) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

  synonyms : henry clay , the great compromiser

• (noun) United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

  synonyms : lucius clay , lucius dubignon clay

• (noun) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

• (noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth

  synonyms : mud

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